Not many players finish in the lane better and with more variety than Jamison, who is even dunking more this season. One of the NBA's leading iron men (207 consecutive starts) has kept the pouting to a minimum, improved his defense -- he had a long way to go -- and delivered 20-plus points consistently. Shot selection is questionable at times, most notably when he settles for jumpers early in a possession.

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-- GILBERT ARENAS: B

The No. 1 point guard is running the team capably, especially considering he turned 21 three weeks ago and is relatively inexperienced at the position. He acknowledged the need to mature after falling into a funk earlier this month, which coincided with a loss of playing time. That said, he and Jason Richardson could have handled Friday's missed practice more professionally. General manager Garry St. Jean has said the Warriors will do "everything we can possible" to re-sign the impending restricted free agent.

Though he craves a bigger role and believes he could start for some teams at power forward or center, Foyle fits well behind starter Erick Dampier. He is averaging career highs in field-goal percentage (53.5) and free-throw percentage (64.2) and ranks seventh in the league in blocks (2.26 a game) despite logging only 20.8 minutes a game.

The Warriors are 11-5 since he returned from a strained lower back to provide stout perimeter defense -- shutting down Houston's Cuttino Mobley and Washington's Jerry Stackhouse keyed two victories -- and competitive fire off the bench. Outside shot has deserted him; he's 3-for-16 from 3-point range and hardly looks to shoot jumpers.

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-- ERICK DAMPIER: C+

The starting center has not grabbed at least 10 rebounds in any of the 29 games since taking 14 boards and scoring a career-high 31 points Nov. 22 against Milwaukee, his fifth double-double of the season. He supplies solid post defense and weak-side help but has been hampered by early-game foul trouble. A career 41.8 percent shooter from the field entering the season, the seventh-year veteran is hitting a personal-best 48.1 percent.

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-- JASON RICHARDSON: C

Up-and-down offensively and often down defensively (though seemingly better lately), Richardson has not earned crunch-time minutes on a regular basis. Richardson is shooting 40 percent from 3-point range but only 38.9 percent inside the arc. He's not getting to the free-throw line enough (3.65 attempts a game), especially for a player making 80.3 percent at the stripe.

Not much room for the 10th-year small forward with Jamison and Mike Dunleavy ahead of him. He has contributed in a pinch but his first half of the season will be remembered for the incident with Bonzi Wells and the Portland Trail Blazers.

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-- MIKE DUNLEAVY: C-

He adjusted slowly to being a short-minutes player -- Jamison averages 41.3 minutes a game at the same position -- opening the season 8-for-41 from the field while being attacked defensively the moment he checked into the game. The Warriors' new "open" offensive set suits his style, and he's made 9 of 14 shots during the team's current three-game winning streak.

In a difficult season that he might prefer finishing elsewhere, Fortson lost his starting job to Murphy and has failed to establish a place in the rotation (one appearance in the past 16 games). He left the team for 16 days, including the first week of the regular season, to be with his ill father, who died Oct. 27. Fortson struggled to regain his conditioning after returning.

Hard-working rookie is stuck behind four other guards and is out of the mix after receiving a modest number of minutes the first month of the season.

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-- COACHING: A-

Eric Musselman has the Warriors on pace for 38 victories with largely the same team that went 21-61 last season, Boykins being the major exception. Second-year players Richardson and Arenas have shown signs of frustration over a lack of playing time in fourth quarters and rookie Dunleavy, the third pick in the June draft, is averaging only 14.3 minutes a game, but it's hard to argue with the Warriors' results.